I posted this over on the SASS wire, but I thought I would share it here as well.
I picked this up at the local shop. It’s a pistol grip deluxe 44-40 with xx or xxx wood, a half magazine, half round barrel. It shows it’s wear and has some pitting but it retains strong traces of color case and blue. The bore is nice and bright and the gun is mechanically perfect. It was manufactured in 1884. According to Madis, for the 1873, only 801 rifles had part round barrels, 2669 had short magazines, 1279 had special wood, 1066 were checkered, 1896 had pistol grips, 16137 had special order sights (it has the Rocky Mountain sight). So that is six custom order options. This one deserves a factory letter. Sorry about the low res images.